Connectivity biomarkers can differentiate patients with different levels of consciousness

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1545-1555

  Höller, Yvonne ^a   Thomschewski, Aljoscha ^a   Bergmann, Jürgen ^a   Kronbichler, Martin ^a,b   Crone, Julia S ^a,b   Schmid, Elisabeth V ^a   Butz, Kevin ^a   Höller, Peter ^a   Nardone, Raffaele ^a,c   Trinka, Eugen ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c FRANZ TAPPEINER HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classification; Coherence; DOC; DTF; GPDC; MCS; VS

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REST; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PROBABILITY; REST; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84904063301     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.12.095     Document Type: Article

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